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How do i make an album by various artists appear as a single album? I have added the "Album Artist" column and entered the "%album artist%" in the display field. But when i try to arrange albums that have various artists through this column, they appear next to one another but spread out, and i want them to be grouped. Under the artist field i have the correct name of each artist, and under Album artist i have "Various artists". This works on itunes, but not here on foobar.Any help?

How do i make an album by various artists appear as a single album? I have added the "Album Artist" column and entered the "%album artist%" in the display field. But when i try to arrange albums that have various artists through this column, they appear next to one another but spread out, and i want them to be grouped. Under the artist field i have the correct name of each artist, and under Album artist i have "Various artists". This works on itunes, but not here on foobar.Any help?

in the Default user interface in Preferences, Custom Grouping Schemes, add new, fill the pattern as %album% and name whatever.

Yes, I guess so, so you should also add %album%... I forgot that I use 2 groupings on top of eachother, one for %album artist% and one for %album%. Oh and i use CUI but I don't think it really changes much between this and DUI...

I also set it up so that if the %album artist% is Various Artists, it shows the %artist% tag after the title, like this:

Well i dont understand of what you've said so far nothing so far I use Colums UI, and i have set the "Album Artist" column and i have entered the "[%album artist%]" under display. And when i want to arrange albums by album artist, this is how the songs of one compilation look like:This is one album called "Five years of hyperdub", by different artists. If i tag this as by various artists, then i wont be able to know by whom each song is. This is why i want to arrange them by album artist.

Bryter, here is how grouping works:For every single track a string is generated, according to the grouping scheme. Tracks are grouped together if and only if these strings are equal. So the very first task, when you want to get some desired gruoping, is to find out what combination of tags you should use in the grouping scheme such that the grouping is done as you want it. You can do this completely without a computer, assuming your files are properly tagged. After you have found such a tag combination you can formulate the actual grouping scheme.

I am having another problem regarding the arrangement of albums. This time its from one artist, and i have chosen to arrange it by artist album. Under grouping i have entered these values: %album artist%[ / %album%][ / %discnumber%]And this is how the tags look for this album (and the artist album column specifications):

I have entered all the right tags. Yet , it is not showing as a group.Thanks to anyone who can help.

Actually the main main problem was that those songs were not grouped together in the right way in folders (in windows). I grouped them properly, and then removed some unnecessary tags, and now its working properly. Didn't know that foobar cares how you store the songs on folders...

It don't cares unless you told it to.disc one and disc two in your screenshot were unsorted andyou told foobar to display by %discnumber%...Also the unnecessary tag removing might have had an impact on your grouping too.